Business secretary Vince Cable warned yesterday that the Government would curb the power of the unions if they mobilise excessive strike action, in a bid to avoid a "summer of discontent".

The CBI yesterday published its assessment of the first year of the coalition Government, against 12 priorities the business group had set out before last year’s general election.

Global business outsourcing firm MSX International (MSXI) has recovered substantial costs following an employment tribunal claim.

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has published the final version of its guidance to accompany the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR), four months before the new rules come into...

Until recently, employers could retire any employee simply because they were aged 65 or over, pretty much without question.

Leaders of Easyjet and the British Airline Pilots' Association (BALPA) are set to share platform to voice their joint commitment to a major shift in approach to tackling pilot lifestyle and industrial...

The number of households in which no one had ever worked almost doubled from 184,000 in the second quarter of 1997 to 352,000 in the second quarter of 2010, according to figures highlighted in the...

Employers have been warned about giving negligent references on ex-employees following a recent High Court case.

The number of age discrimination claims has increased by 164% to 2,900 in the three months to December 2010, compared to 1,100 the year before, an analysis of the latest data show.

Cheryl Cole has been axed from the US version of the X Factor because of fears the American audience wouldn’t be able to understand her strong Geordie accent.

In its latest Quarterly Economic Forecast, published yesterday, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has downgraded its growth expectations for 2011 and 2012 and is expecting an increase in...

Employer awareness to act on the Agency Workers Regulation is increasing, according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC).